FREMONT, Ohio — Most racers love to do victory donuts. Not Cole Macedo.
The Lemoore, California native received his first nationwide touring race Monday at Fremont Speedway Introduced by Gill Development and after taking the checkers hopped the best rear of one other automobile and flipped.
However the win in opposition to the Kubota Excessive Restrict Racing Sequence Roto-Rooter Midweek Sequence stood for Macedo, who moved to Fremont, Ohio just a few years in the past to pursue a profession in dash automobile racing.
Macedo, who’s vying for the rookie of the 12 months honors with the World of Outlaws aboard the No. 2c dash automobile owned by Todd and Kelly Carlile, served discover he was the automobile to beat on Kistler Racing Merchandise Evening.
He set quick time in {qualifications}, then driving from fourth to his warmth race win, and dominating the sprint to start out on the pole of the 35 lap, $12,000-to-win characteristic.
Macedo led each lap of the A-main, although it wasn’t straightforward as Kyle Larson pressured him the ultimate 9 laps and he needed to cope with very lapped visitors from lap 10 to the top. After the flip on the finish of the race, the staff held its breath because the automobile needed to be lowered onto the scales by a wrecker, making a tense jiffy earlier than it was introduced Macedo had made weight.
“I believed I had misplaced the race after I flipped. I didn’t see the checkers. That is so superior to do that in entrance of the family and friends I made right here,” Macedo defined. “I grew up right here. I really like this race monitor. I needed to actually push the staff to come back to this race and it paid off.
“Wayne and all the fellows have been working so exhausting this 12 months. We’ve had velocity however simply couldn’t seal the deal. This offers me an enormous burst of confidence and hopefully we will get much more of those nationwide collection wins.”
It was Macedo’s eleventh profession win at Fremont.
Rounding out the highest 5 had been Larson, Tyler Courtney, Brad Candy and Brent Marks.
The end:
Characteristic (30 laps): 1. 2C-Cole Macedo[1]; 2. 57-Kyle Larson[4]; 3. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[6]; 4. 49-Brad Candy[3]; 5. 19-Brent Marks[11]; 6. 13-Daison Pursley[2]; 7. 24-Rico Abreu[13]; 8. 19H-Joel Myers Jr[12]; 9. 88-Tanner Thorson[15]; 10. 48-Danny Dietrich[14]; 11. 14R-Sean Rayhall[5]; 12. 4-Zane DeVault[10]; 13. 33W-Cap Henry[18]; 14. 87-Aaron Reutzel[25]; 15. 42-Sye Lynch[8]; 16. 26-Justin Peck[27]; 17. 5-Brenham Crouch[29]; 18. 09-Craig Mintz[16]; 19. 16-DJ Foos[26]; 20. 14-Spencer Bayston[22]; 21. 29-Zeth Sabo[19]; 22. 15C-Chris Andrews[20]; 23. 9-Kasey Kahne[28]; 24. 11N-Kasey Jedrzejek[23]; 25. 3J-Trey Jacobs[7]; 26. 14BC-Corey Day[9]; 27. 11-Cole Duncan[24]; 28. 101-Kalib Henry[17]; 29. 9R-Chase Randall[21]
